Jelani Mills didn’t do himself any favors with his lame excuse, either, telling Judge Barry Kron that he’d skipped out because his daughter wasn’t feeling well.

“He has a 9-year-old daughter and his daughter had an illness at school,” Mills’ attorney Scott Davis told the judge. “His wife is a schoolteacher who was unable to [help].”

But Kron, who issued a fugitive warrant for Mills after he ducked out of court around noon Tuesday, wasn’t buying it.

“That is totally unacceptable. He’s facing felony charges that could put him in jail for a very long time,” he said. “Your client’s excuse lacks credibility to me. He could have called and said, ‘My daughter has an emergency.’”

Kron mocked Mills some more and then remanded him.

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“Schoolteachers are people, too, who are able to leave school for emergencies.” Then, imitating Mills, he added, “I did not pick up my telephone.”

In two indictments brought over two years, Mills and Wills, a Democrat who represents Jamaica, Queens, got slapped with a dozen counts, ranging from grand larceny to fraud.

Both are accused of scamming the city Campaign Finance Board by accepting matching funds to pay Micro Targeting for helping with Wills’ failed 2009 City Council bid. The shell company didn’t do any work, but it didn’t stop Mills from billing Wills $11,500 for the work, according to one indictment.

The cash was then sent to the nonprofit New York 4 Life, from which Wills is accused of raiding more than $30,000.

The spoils went to a shameless shopping spree, with Wills allegedly shelling out at Macy’s, Nordstrom’s and Century 21 on items like a $750 Louis Vuitton handbag.

According to two sources, Wills is sick in a hospital and is not expected to return to the City Council for at least two weeks. He did not return calls Wednesday.